 | George Van Ness Dearborn - 1916 - 252 pages
...Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 354 pages
...beautifully about failing to develop individuality as teachers. In his Essay on Self-reliance he says, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | Matthew Hale Wilson - 1916 - 336 pages
...beautifully about failing to develop individuality as teachers. In his Essay on Self-reliance he says, "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognize... | |
 | 1916 - 548 pages
...declares with the conviction, at once proud and humble, of one conscious of his own high spiritual gifts, "to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. " That gleam is the inflowing of God, or of Nature, which is the manifestation of God, or of the Over-Soul,... | |
 | George Wharton James - 1916 - 326 pages
...desire to know that led him to write the hymn. What a profound truth Emerson said when he wrote : " A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...flashes across his mind from within, more than the luster of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Trine - 1917 - 258 pages
...whose lives have been lives of accomplishment and service for their fellow-men. Emerson, who said: "A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his. In every work of genius we recognise... | |
 | Jeane Eddy Westin - 1996 - 476 pages
...find my answer on the other side of action. January 13 You Are Your Sunshine A man should learn to watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind from within. —Ralph Waldo Emerson The sixth principle in your action plan says, "Make your own sunlight." Don't... | |
 | Paul Jay - 1997 - 236 pages
...Milton is, that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages" (259). Emerson's position here recalls the familiar conceptual division between inner and outer ("books... | |
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.' Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his." °*• Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essay... | |
 | Thomas B. McMullen, Jr - 1998 - 324 pages
...Milton is that they set at naught books and traditions, and spoke not what men but what they thought. A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam...more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.l Yet he dismisses without notice his thought, because it is his." «*• Ralph Waldo Emerson,... | |
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A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind -- from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages. 
